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Artist's Impression Of A HFT Trading Terminal

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 09/08/2010 11:53 -0400

As usual, we present visual aids for the learning disabled (i.e., those based at 100 F Street, NE) in their Sisyphean quest of understanding a market structure that is about 20 years ahead of where the SEC currently is. Below, courtesy of William Banzai, is what the regulators would find if they could get their conflicted and confused little hands on a HFT trading terminal.

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Wed, 09/08/2010 - 11:56 | 569583 kato

that 'whose desktop' theme was funny early; now just tired.

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 11:59 | 569591 Testicular Cancer

Are you joking? I love 'em. Keep em cumming. & for all you guys who hate the running gag theme,

Desktop Bitchez!!

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:06 | 569610 kato

anyone who uses the term 'bitchez' on this site is gay

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:26 | 569654 VeloSpade

Including you?

bitchez

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:36 | 569689 Dr. Richard Head

Heeeeeyyyyyyyyy bithez!!!!

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:08 | 569617 MsCreant

Come on. Parasite mode is funny. Fleshbot. Empty beer gauge, the players seated at a big game of cards gambling, come on...

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:48 | 569729 Smu the Wonderhorse

"Open the pod bay doors, Hal. Hal? Open the doors, Hal!"

Thu, 09/09/2010 - 09:12 | 571499 aldousd

"Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?"

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:01 | 569596 free_as_in_beer

One screen and a single table. Hrmmmm.

Can I get a sup bro?

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:01 | 569597 VeloSpade

All your trades are belong to us.

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:08 | 569616 TradingJoe

Hahahaha! How Funny! Not even HFT guys don't want to miss porn, hehehehehe, LMAO!

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:11 | 569623 themosmitsos

Beer's on E hahahahhaha

Only think missing is flash CRASH button, not flash alert!

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:16 | 569630 JLee2027

HAL 9000 lol. Many here are too young to get that part.

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:18 | 569631 Stepney

Half of that lot is on my desktop too.

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:20 | 569638 RemiG2010

Looks very similar to my 'hft' desk too :D

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:21 | 569639 JLee2027

Turning off bad Hal. Cool to watch even 40 years later

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4gr3z_2001-a-space-odyssey-hal-9000-part_tech

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:30 | 569668 MsCreant

This could be rewritten as a very funny play where they are dismantling Wallstreet's HFT apparatus instead.

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 14:48 | 570065 Uncle Remus

Daisy, Dazey give me a price that's true

I'm half crazy, lookin' for some va-alue.

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 15:11 | 570115 longjohnshorts

Very nice.

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:41 | 569706 Dr. No

Nonsense. An HFT screen looks like the green streaming bit symbols from the matrix, if only they had screens.

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:51 | 569732 Bearster

Tyler, you say that the market is ahead of the regulators. Would you agree that the computer and Internet industries are ahead of the regulators?

Extra credit: what happens when the regulators get ahead of businesses and individuals?

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 12:57 | 569750 Cognitive Dissonance

I wouldn't call WB7 an "artist". I'd call him a "seriously deranged artist".

Thanks WB7

Thu, 09/09/2010 - 00:18 | 571059 Hephasteus

Derangement gets you to the really good fung shuei.

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 13:16 | 569752 williambanzai7

SERIOUSLY DERANGED ARTISTS STATEMENT

I have a short statement to make to the Zero Hedge Community. If you look at my Blog you will see that I began posting in September 2008. I spent a good part of my career toiling for Wall Street. Going blind at the printers, hours of seemingly trivial legal nonsense.

When the Lehman/AIG meltdown hit and then the bailouts, I was totally disgusted with what the modern world of finance had mutated into.

I began with parody song lyrics and poetry that made the rounds on the Internet and more than a few desks in Washington.

From there I went through semi-serious essays as well as all out spoof. I never ranted on other blogs but posted my stuff on many platforms such as Slate, Deal Book etc.

The reward was making people smile in a situation that was pretty sad. The next objective was to try, in my humble way, to publicly humiliate the parade of Wall Street and Washington clowns and to communicate in a manner widely accessible, the basic issues that are so well known here at Zero Hedge.

Earlier this year, I decided to apply myself to visual communication. I discovered that this approach connects or repells instantaneously. No surprise really. If you have read Marshall M, the medium is the message. I also concluded that ZH is by far the best place to read and contribute.

I know some disagree with my methods. You will notice that I don't paste my images on the ZH Blog out of respect to reader preference. If you don't like the images, you don't have to click the link.

Nevertheless, I try to keep my content on point . My apologies if I sometimes get carried away. But please remember my primary motive, I want to make people smile or even LOL despite the fact that we all have so much to be angry about in the good old Crony US of A. It goes with taking the red pill.

Thank you ZH community, for enriching my daily routine with wit, humor and intelligence.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wkgIzuqJM0w/THjilXnB2kI/AAAAAAAAFnk/_2SivXJ3vh...

WB7

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 14:25 | 569866 Sisyphus

Since Tyler, Marla et al. haven't a problem with you posting links to your work, I don't understand why the anonymous junk{i}e{r}s get their Islet of Langerhans in a twist over this. I, for one, appreciate your work. Keep on contributing. Thank you!

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 15:28 | 570162 Hang The Fed

Humor is the single greatest weapon against those who are very serious about their self-importance. Keep cracking away at them, my man. I, for one, find these completely hysterical.

Wed, 09/08/2010 - 16:54 | 570442 Miss Expectations